The constellation of Pyxis is located to the south of the ecliptic plane.
Time ago it was considered part of the ancient constellation of Argo Navis as
the "mast" of the ship. Alpha Pyxis is
850 light years away from us and is a very nice star to look specially because
it appears with magnitude star 8.05 TYC 7141-2724-1and both
show a colorful pair that can be seen with any type of telescopes even from
light polluted areas.

Alpha Pyxis is quite dim
because of the interstellar dust around. The dust was eliminated with processing
because the higher light pollution. This is a hot blue-white
giant star about 18,000 times brighter than our own Sun
and about 8 times larger. Hiding inside a circumstellar shell.